San Diego State vs Alaska Fairbanks
- January 9, 2024
- San Diego, Calif.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: SDSU Athletics
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego State swim and dive team enjoyed another series of successful performances on Tuesday after defeating Alaska Fairbanks by a 33-24 count in a pentathlon meet between the two schools at Aztec Aquaplex.
With the victory, SDSU raised its record to 12-0 in dual-meet competition this season and has captured all four meetings against the Nanooks in program history.
SDSU boasted the top seven pentathlon finishers, led by junior Mai McKenna, who took home the individual title for the second straight season after posting a combined time of 4:58.23, edging freshman Reka Nyiradi (4:59.99) by less than two seconds.
Graduate student Evonne Stehr was a close third in the final standings with a clocking of 5:00.34, followed by senior Christiana Williams (5:02.98), sophomore Moa Bergdahl (5:07.25), junior Avery Turney (5:09.78) and graduate student Riley Tapley (5:13.60).
McKenna logged top-five individual placements in the five pentathlon events, winning the 100 backstroke with a season-fast time of 58.68, while finishing second in the 100 butterfly (58.42), fourth in the both the 100 breaststroke (1:07.86) and 100 individual medley (1:00.38), and fifth in the 100 freestyle (52.71), the latter of which marked a career best.
Additionally, Nyiradi was emerged victorious in a pair of pentathlon races, claiming titles in the 100 freestyle (51.51) and 100 butterfly (56.67) to go with a second-place effort in the 100 IM (1:00.38) and a third-place performance in the 100 backstroke (59.87).
Not to be outdone, Stehr was triumphant in the 100 IM (59.76) after placing second in the 100 freestyle (52.34), while Williams took home the crown in the 100 breaststroke (1:02.80), finishing ahead of Moa Bergdahl (1:03.73).
In head-to-head scoring, points were awarded to only to the top three finishers from each squad on a 12-11-10-9-8-7 basis.
The two teams swam additional races on Tuesday. These events were not scored in the results but gave both the Aztecs and Nanooks benchmarks to continue their mid-season training with.
SDSU seized the top five spots in the 500 freestyle, featuring season-fast times by Wilma Johansson (4:54.77) and Emily Allen (5:05.23), while Paige Mitchell (5:06.48) took third, followed in succession by Raya Embury-Brown (5:11.25), who logged a season-best time of her own, and Summer West (5:12.09).
The Aztecs also dominated four sprinting events, claiming the top nine places in the 50 freestyle and 50 backstroke along with the top seven slots in the 50 butterfly and 50 breaststroke.
Williams captured the gold in the 50 breaststroke with a clocking of 28.68, while Stehr took home top honors in the 50 back with a time of 27.46.
In addition, Rachel Hubka was triumphant in the 50 butterfly with a swim of 26.32, edging Stehr, who placed second in the event at 26.43, while Turney (23.92) was a narrow winner over Meredith Smithbaker (24.06) in the 50 freestyle.
San Diego State returns to action this weekend when select competitors travel up the freeway for the UCLA Bruin Diving Invitational, Jan. 12-14, in Los Angeles, California.
Courtesy: Alaska Nanooks Athletics
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – After a quad meet on Monday, the Nanooks swim team faced San Diego State on Tuesday, Jan. 9. They fell to the Aztecs 33-24.
The two sides competed in 10 events in the dual meet.
To open up, they raced in the 100-yard freestyle. Charlotte Fletcher-Stables was the top finisher for the Nanooks squad, cracking the top-10 with a 10th-place finish and time of 55.98. Dorka Dancsok and Lainey Lioi followed as the second and third-best times for Alaska as Dancsok (13th) posted a 56.41 and Lioi (14th) posted a 56.58. Naomi Burgan and Adeline Berry followed as the other Nanooks to crack the sub-minute mark as Burgan finished 16th with a 58.38 and Berry finished 18th with a time of 59.23. Shannon McCallum took 19th with a 1:00.05, Payton Wojciechowicz took 20th with a 1:00.18, Tori Shoemaker took 21st with a 1:01.08, Meah McCallum took 22nd with a 1:01.24, Kaidence Sampsel and Mesa Moran tied for 24th with a 1:03.16 and Kylee Carter took 26th with a 1:08.81.
In the 100-yard butterfly, Dorka Dansok led the way with an eighth-place finish and time of 1:01.94 – she was followed by Berry in 12th-place and a time of 1:05.06. The final Nanooks in the top-20 were Naomi Burgan (15th – 1:07.84), Charlotte Fletcher-Stables (16th – 1:08.65), Mesa Moran (17th – 1:09.05), Lainey Lioi (18th – 1:09.61) and Shannon McCallum (19th – 1:10.98). The final racers for Alaska was Kaidence Sampsel and Kylee Carter as the two took 21st and 22nd with times of 1:16.93 and 1:26.75, respectively. The 100-yard backstroke was the third event of the morning and Charlotte Fletcher-Stables posted a big showing for the Nanooks. She took second in the event, posting a time of 58.97, trailing the winning time by less than half a second. Dorka Dancsok followed in 12th with a time of 1:04.67. Lainey Lioi finished just behind in 14th with a time of 1:07.55. The Nanooks rounded out the results with Wojciechowicz (17th – 1:10.86), Burgan (18th – 1:11.22), Berry (19th – 1:11.25), S. McCallum (20th – 1:12.06), Sampsel (21st – 1:14.53), Moran (22nd – 1:16.61) and Carter (23rd – 1:23.19).
Dorka Dancsok led the way for Alaska in the 100-yard breaststroke, taking sixth and nearly making the top-five with a finishing time of 1:09.76. Tori Shoemaker followed in 11th with a time of 1:16.50. Shannon McCallum and Naomi Burgan had a top-15 finish with times of 1:19.73 (McCallum – 13th) and 1:20.07 (Burgan – 15th). Adeline Berry, Payton Wojciechowicz, Charlotte Fletcher-Stables, Meah McCallum, Kaidence Sampsel, Kylee Carter and Mesa Moran rounded out the finishing times for the Nanooks.
Alaska had two top-10 finishers in the 100-yard IM as Dancsok took eighth-place with a finishing time of 1:04.22 and Fletcher-Stables took 10th with a time of 1:05.39. Shoemaker, Berry, Burgan, Wojciechowicz, McCallum, Sampsel, Moran and Carter took 14-21 for the Nanooks. The 50-yard freestyle saw Lainey Lioi lead the way for the Nanooks, finishing 10th with a 26.72. Burgan followed in 11th (27.41) and Wojciechowicz took 12th with a 27.95. Shannon McCallum (28.02), Adeline Berry (28.19), Meah McCallum (28.40) and Mesa Moran (29.37) rounded out the racers for Alaska. Adeline Berry turned around and led the way for Alaska in the 50-yard butterfly, taking eighth with a time of 29.26. Lioi followed in ninth with 30.74 and Burgan finished 10th with a 30.89. Shannon McCallum took 13th and Mesa Moran took 14th, respectively. In the third-to-last individual event, Lioi led the way for Alaska again with a 10th-place finish and time of 30.99 in the 50-yard backstroke. Burgan took 12th with a 33.53, McCallum took 13th with a 33.67, Wojciechowicz took 14th with a 34.22 and Moran took 15th with a 37.05.
Tori Shoemaker took eighth with a 35.31, Burgan followed in ninth with a 35.91 and Shannon McCallum took 10th with a 36.17. Adeline Berry, Payton Wojciechowicz, Meah McCallum and Mesa Moran took 12-15 for the Nanooks, all cracking sub-40 seconds.
The final event was the 500-yard freestyle. Four Nanooks competed as Dorka Dancsok led the way with a sixth-place finish and time of 5:29.15. Charlotte Fletcher-Stables took seventh with a time of 5:43.04, Kaidence Sampsel took eighth with a 6:05.50 and Kylee Carter took ninth with a 6:28.28.
Alaska returns home this weekend as they welcome Westmont College for a Friday/Saturday matchup on Jan. 12-13.
